{"id":1173,"date":"2006-10-29T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/goings-on\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T11:52:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:52:52","slug":"goings-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/goings-on","title":{"rendered":"Goings On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy’s thinking of getting a Mini Cooper, so I took a look at them yesterday while she was getting her hair cut. They’re awfully neat cars and, if I wasn’t opposed to owning a car from a German company, I’d look at getting one for myself. Alas.<\/p>\n

We got home and caught up with Sabrina (1954) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which remains the funniest movie I’ve seen this decade. I’d never seen Sabrina, and my only point of reference was hearing Mike & the Mad Dog decry the old version in favor of the contemporary edition. When one of them declared that Audrey Hepburn wasn’t that pretty, it became clear to me that all sports radio hosts are actually gay. In between movies, Amy put together an “avocado et crevettes” dish for me, similar to the one we had in Paris. Love is wonderful.<\/p>\n

What’s not wonderful is the idea of a musical based on Bob Dylan’s songs. We caught a clip of “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” the, um, Bob Dylan musical. On Broadway. No, seriously. It was on The Soup<\/a>, and Amy & I just stared agog, like Beavis & Butthead during a bad video.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, one of my favorite writers, David Gates, went to see the show, and wrote a column about it for Newsweek. He was even more perplexed than we were.<\/a><\/p>\n

In other news, I’m headed off to San Antonio tonight for a pharma conference<\/a>. This’ll be followed by a trip to Orlando next Sunday for another one<\/a>, but that oughtta wrap up my business travel for the year, unless I make a short trip up to Toronto to visit some clients.<\/p>\n

Starting tomorrow, if all goes well (as in, we get everything written and I’m able to get online at the hotel), I’ll begin posting the third annual Virtual Memories NBA Preview! Official VM bestest buddy Tom Spurgeon & I have divvied up the 30 squads and will be offering our jaundiced take on the NBA (with a couple of guest-contributors).<\/p>\n

In honor of that, I present the man who got me to watch pro hoops regularly, when I was 14 or so: Patrick Ewing.<\/p>\n

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Amy’s thinking of getting a Mini Cooper, so I took a look at them yesterday while she was getting her hair cut. They’re awfully neat cars and, if I wasn’t opposed to owning a car from a German company, I’d look at getting one for myself. Alas. We got home and caught up with Sabrina … <\/p>\n

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